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Ajax for Web Application Developers
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Ajax for Web Application Developers

by Kris Hadlock
October 2006
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
5h 55m
English
Sams
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Chapter 10. Accordion

Adding massive amounts of data to one web page is not a recommended design approach because it can be completely disorienting to the user, and might cause him to go to another site. There are always exceptions, though, which is the case when using an accordion component to display data. Using an accordion component enables a single web page to display much more content without disorienting the user in the process. An accordion has multiple panels that can expand and collapse to reveal only the data that a user is interested in viewing without overwhelming him with everything at one time.

In this chapter, we will learn how to create a custom Ajax-enabled accordion component. An Ajax-enabled accordion can lend itself to many ...

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